Racial Identity Matters: The Relationship between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Functioning in African American Adolescents

By Robert M. Sellers, N. Copeland-Linder, Pamela P. Martin, R. L. Lewis. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Racial Identity as a Moderator of Daily Exposure and Reactivity to Racial Discrimination (2010, methodology): “Consistent with previous research (Sellers et al., 2006), the most blatant or transparent racial discriminatory encounters were among the least reported by study participants.”
Resilience to discrimination stress across ethnic identity stages of development (2014, background): “Yet, the majority of previous research suggests that individuals who have a less developed ethnic identity are the most vulnerable to the negative effects of high levels of discrimination (Sellers, Caldwell, Schmeelk-Cone, & Zimmerman, 2003; Sellers & Shelton, 2003; Sellers et al., 2006; Wong, Eccle”
Predictors of Imposter Phenomenon among Talented Ethnic Minority Undergraduate Students (2015, neutral): “…Hispanic undergrads enrolled in colleges where Latinos comprise 10% of the total population (α = .71 to .84; Gloria, Castellanos, & Orozco, 2005; Gloria et al., 2009), and a sample of African American adolescents attending school in a majority White school district (α = .85; Sellers et al., 2006).”
Racial Ideological Beliefs and Racial Discrimination Experiences as Predictors of Academic Engagement Among African American Adolescents (2007, methodology): “There is also growing evidence that certain racial identity attitudes may protect African American adolescents from the negative influence of racial discrimination (Sellers et al., 2006; Wong et al., 2003).”
The Promise of Racial and Ethnic Protective Factors in Promoting Ethnic Minority Youth Development (2012, background): “…2011a, 2011b; Rivas-Drake et al., 2008; Rivas-Drake, Hughes, & Way, 2009a), as well as their protective effects, in that African American youth who felt others viewed African Americans less favorably were less vulnerable to the negative impact of racial discrimination (Sellers et al., 2006).”
A Theory of African American Offending (2014, background): “The NSAL includes measures of major forms of racial discrimination such as in hiring but it omits measures of the more prevalent everyday racist microaggressions (Essed, 1991; Sellers et al., 2006).”
Perceived Discrimination and Health: A Meta-Analytic Review (2009, background): “, 2006), perceived stress (Sellers et al., 2006), and depression (McCoy & Major, 2003; Noh et al.”
A Cultural-Asset Framework for Investigating Successful Adaptation to Stress in African American Youth (2012, background): “depression and anxiety (Sellers et al., 2006; Simons et al., 2002; Wong, Eccles, & Sameroff, 2003) and in anger (Terrell,”